Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (A Douglas Gibson Book)

Hardcover first edition, first printing, in fine condition. Dust jacket likewise fine and unmarked throughout. Pages are clean, crisp, and appear entirely unread. A light imperfection is noted to the bottom of the title page, disclosed in the interest of accuracy; it does not affect the text. Binding is tight and square. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a landmark collection. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 2001, as "A Douglas Gibson Book." First edition, first printing. Alice Munro was a Canadian short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, the first Canadian woman to receive the prize. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction and received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her life's work. Munro had a longtime association with editor Douglas Gibson, and this collection was published under his imprint at McClelland & Stewart. The nine stories in this collection, several originally published in The New Yorker and the London Review of Books, include "Floating Bridge," "Family Furnishings," "Post and Beam," "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," and five others, exploring the complexities of middle age, memory, and moral life in Munro's signature southwestern Ontario settings. ISBN 0-7710-6525-6. Ships from Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.